Happy Administrative Professionals’ Week!

Thousands of SEIU Local 521 members provide support services to the public every day. Your work is vital, and during Administrative Professionals’ Week and every day, we thank you for your dedication to serving our communities.

As one of the “Unknown Children” of the Civil Rights Movement and a woman of color, I believe in unions and always have.

I decided to renew my membership with SEIU Local 521 in February 2018 because, thanks to our union, we have a voice and are not at the mercy of the boss’s unreasonable demands. By being involved as an SEIU 521 Steward, I have been able to fight with my coworkers for our rights. On a personal level, choosing a career in a unionized workplace means that I was able to experience upward mobility, achieve many of my goals, and provide a decent living for my family in Silicon Valley. By being active in our union, we get a voice, are able to protect our benefits such as pensions and healthcare, and fight against discrimination of all sorts.

We have to stand up for workers’ rights, and pass the torch on to our children, and the next generations who will need unions to fight for their livelihood. It’s a fight for all of us, not just for union members. We need to stand together with working people and not let the well-funded, anti-worker groups rig the economy against us by dividing us. Now is the time for all of us to stick together to defend our union and our contracts.

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